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Was this Phil Hughes pitching like a stud or was this the Rays hitting like a dud?

I thought he looked really good. He was sitting 92, his revamped slurve or whatever looked good. His command was pretty good. And the ump was hurting him more than he was helping him. Definitely a promising start.

Apparently the rules of baseball have changed since the last time I watched a game:
http://scores.espn.go.com/mlb/playbyplay?gameId=330423117

If they fix it by the time you look at it, it shows the Reds going up 3-2 in the bottom of the 9th, before losing 4-2 in the 10th. I assume the fielder's choice was the 3rd out and that the run didn't score?

Teheran pitched a heck of a game tonight - 7ip 90 pitches, 70 strikes no walks one run. 8 hits, but he managed quite well with runners on.

Even the 8 hits are deceiving. One was a chopper up the middle, one was a jam shot flair, a couple of ground balls that would have been easy outs if they were a few feet either way. Could easily have been a 4 hit 0 run game. He did an outstanding job keeping the ball on the ground, and grounballers are gonna have that problem sometimes.

If B.J. Upton were a true leader, he would have stopped at third base after hitting his homer. That would have allowed his brother to pick up the RBI instead of B.J. hogging it for himself. Must run in the family.

Do you have to play an ad before every 30 second clip I want to watch, MLB?

According to the AJC, back-to-back brother HRs had only been done once before, by Lloyd and Paul Waner in 1938. J Upton also set an Atlanta Braves record with 11 HRs in April, besting the old mark of 10 by both Andres Galarraga and Ryan Klesko. That said, Upton has fallen well short of the Walt Weiss April grit record (IIRC, Weiss registered a 38 in April of 1998, besting Mark Lemke's 36 in 1992.)